Comments on: Ranking Big Ten schools on recruiting appealhttp://btn.com/2014/02/06/ranking-big-ten-schools-on-recruiting-appeal/
BTN.com is the official Big Ten sports site of TV's Big Ten Network.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:05:55 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: jimhttp://btn.com/2014/02/06/ranking-big-ten-schools-on-recruiting-appeal/#comment-635290
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:23:12 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-635290My only complaint of Ohio State – if it’s even a complaint. I am a Northwestern fan and I have been to a game against every Big Ten team in the past few years. The Ohio State fans do not represent the university as fondly as the others. They are more vulgar , loud, and very arrogant. The best surprisingly were Michigan and Penn St. fans. Nebraska, Wisconsin , Iowa, Michigan St. and Ill. are all about the same. Not bad at all. I really didn’t notice enough fan base of the follow to form an opinion. Purdue, Minn. and Ind.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:00:27 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-632150Wait, what? Minneapolis-St. Paul is a major metropolis that Columbus cannot compete with? So I guess the combined 700,000 people in MSP are somehow cooler or more fun than the 800,000 in Columbus? How did the 47th and 66th largest cities in the US get to be so much more impressive than the 15th largest US city? Yeah, makes perfect sense, Ohio State surely cannot sell being the heartbeat of a major metropolis anything like Minnesota…#LMAO

Michigan in 2003, when they beat Ohio State at home and were heading to the Rose Bowl was a quieter stadium experience for me than going to East Lansing in 2004 when Teddy Ginn ran laps around the Spartans…Michigan’s in stadium experience is lame for the number of people they squeeze in there…awful stadium, even with the upgrades…

Penn State is amazing, hats off to them, what a great program, stadium, campus, etc. OSU’s biggest competitor in recruiting long term…

Wisconsin is great, agree with most of Dienhart’s points, but it’s odd that they don’t get many five star skill players in there…they would be scary good if they could remedy that…

Nebraska needs a coach that is larger than life to get the recruits to come back there…you can see they do pretty well solely based on program tradition, which is great, but without the big time coach, this is about as good as program tradition and great fans will be able to do for them…

People who can’t compete on the field with OSU love to dog our academic rep, but being #52 overall nationally and something like top 20 among public institutions is quite impressive…not to mention they are replacing mediocre faculty with much higher quality over time and the acceptance standards have gotten exponentially harder/higher over the last decade plus…the problem with rankings through USNWR is that moving up isn’t very easy when one of the heaviest criteria is a “reputational score” that is garnered by surveying academics at all the elite institutions and flat out asking them to list their top 50 institutions without any stats or info to back it up…

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Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:10:25 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-581906Matt,
You have a very good coach there in Kill. I hope his health stays with him.
I’m a huge Northwestern fan and I will tell you it can happen when the right people are in place, as is the case now at Northwestern. Minnesota I think is on the brink. Illinois and Indiana it’s not going very well. Purdue better be careful of loosing there once strong recruiting base. They have been on a slippery slope the last few years.
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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:13:27 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-575751North Dakota is hardly much competition for a big ten school in recruiting. I further think most kids would rather be around Minneapolis / St. Paul than Fargo.
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Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:20:16 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-574592Minnesota may not have any other FBS schools in the state, but they do have to compete against a school just across the river in North Dakota that has a threepeat and consistently beats FBS teams each season.
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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:36:59 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-573470As Purdue Football Alumni….I think Purde Football is DEAD! Purdue has had only 2 Winning Coaches since Jack Mollenkopf retired in 1969. There is no commitment to football at all. Morgan Burke is a swimmenr and more interested in balancing the budget and getting his name in the New York Times….It is a sad situation that will not improve with Mitch & Morgan.
]]>By: Loganhttp://btn.com/2014/02/06/ranking-big-ten-schools-on-recruiting-appeal/#comment-570444
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:54:09 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-570444Let’s face it stadiums well be louder on different games I’ve only been to kinnick and I can tell u it’s definatly louder when it’s a night game and a big game. But as you no if it’s 11 am and were playing a weak team and not taking care of business it doesn’t matter how drunk we all are, it’s tough to get the place going and I assume that’s how every stadium that sells out consistently is.
]]>By: Adamhttp://btn.com/2014/02/06/ranking-big-ten-schools-on-recruiting-appeal/#comment-568797
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 02:23:14 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-568797Northwestern at #11???? You can have a great career. So few of these kids go to the pros … apparently Tom forgets that. Sure, other schools offer good educations. But Northwestern offers the best in Division 1, and they make sure you actually graduate. *DROPS MIC*
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Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:19:24 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-567566As a Northwestern alumnus who has been to every B1G stadium I agree with the rankings.

Between tOSU, Nebraska, Michigan, and PSU you can’t go wrong ranking one above the other it just depends on who is playing the best football at the moment.

NU has academics, proximity to Chicago, and campus beauty. Only a few schools in the nation have their own beach. NU does however have little buzz, a boring town, so-so stadium, and a poor gameday atmosphere, which is I why have no problem being 11th.

I you are a recruit who values academics and wants to play big time football why go anywhere else, but if your first priority is to stay close to home or football is more important than “playing school” Northwestern is not for you.

]]>By: Pete Thttp://btn.com/2014/02/06/ranking-big-ten-schools-on-recruiting-appeal/#comment-567385
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:31:01 +0000http://btn.com/?p=298424#comment-567385“The Beave” is great on game day. I’ve never talked to an opposing fan who said our folks treated them badly (tho everyone has bad seeds). We love our B10 brethren. Its a solid stadium & all seats have a decent view. (I’ve had some nose bleed seats & have always been surprised.) They’re putting in 2 massive video boards. The next thing they have to do upgrade wireless for fan experience…and the press box is supposedly bad. The thing no one in the comments mentions but Dienhart hits on is the recruiting base. PSU sits in the middle of the Mid-Atlantic so, they can easily reach east coast kids, eastern midwest kids & parts of SEC country. Energetic young coaches like Franklin have a jewel if they work hard. Reportedly half of JoePa’s staff didn’t even recruit and still won B10’s a couple times late. As far as academics, I looked at the QS World University rankings and ALL are highly ranked. Be proud. Here’s how the B10 institutions rank…ON THE ENTIRE PLANET: